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Thursday, July 17, 2003
Goodness what a strange day. I didn't do much, although there was much I could have done. Today was one of those days where I sat around contemplating and perhaps doing a little bit of worrying.
Just the same, I made a phone call today that I didn't want to make. Some of my very favorite relatives will be in Miami at their vacation apartment this weekend. They all want to get together and do a family reunion like thing. I can't go. My parents are going. I last saw these people in November 2001. Aside from not being able to go spend a little bit of time with them, it bothers me that I decided to lie about WHY I wasn't going. It's funny-they're my family, I love them, but I don't feel comfortable telling them exactly why I won't be joining them. It shouldn't be that way in an ideal situation. But if I were honest, I don't see what good could come of it. I don't enjoy being dishonest, but I know them well enough to realize that all that would come of it is gossip and more worrying. I'd like to prevent both. At least they weren't home when I called. I left a message on the answering machine. That made it easier because I know I would have been subject to twenty questions if I had gotten them on the phone, and I'm upset about it enough that I'm not sure I would have been able to control my emotions. It pisses me off too, because normally, I'm very ''there'' for my family. I really try to make myself available to them. It's important to me to keep in touch with them and be a part of their lives. Perhaps if Martin & I run into some money we can take a quick trip up there and see them and go to NYC for a weekend. (I doubt that this will happen but this is my way of trying to make myself feel better.)
You know, it wasn't that long ago that I was on planes constantly. NYC. Las Vegas. Germany. All over the place I was. Back and forth to Miami. I really appreciated that time. But I guess that with the getting married, buying a house, quitting my job and going back to school, my budget for such excursions has significantly decreased. My budget for a lot of things has decreased. If I wanted to increase my budget, I guess I could quit this school thing and get a regular job again. But as I was telling Martin at dinner, I either decide to follow my dreams and get this degree now or I'll never do it. There will never be a better time. So I guess I'd better shut up about it and see this time as a good opportunity. The money will come.
Tuesday, July 15, 2003
My brow wax/facial person who I go to is a very eccentric but very cool person. I really enjoy her because she is very unconventional. She sees things from quite a different perspective than many of us. I really enjoy people like this, in fact, when I see her, she reminds me of Dominique. Her name is Dee. And while I was waiting for her, I heard this story coming from one of the two reception people. One was a man named Miles and I didn't catch the woman's name.
Miles: I still remember the first time I met Dee.
Random woman: Oh yeah?
Miles: Yeah. I said, ''hi, my name is Miles. Then she said, ''Hi Miles, my name is Dee for distance!''
Get it?
I thought that was funny. But the truth of the matter is, is that whenever I go there, I always end up laughing.
Tonight we had a really good dinner. My aunt made this filet mignon that was out of this world, along with red potatoes that had all been marinated in red wine over night. She also made rice that had butter, mushrooms and parmesan cheese in it that was really good. A lot of energy spent for someone who's 87! Anyway, we all appreciated her effort and we enjoyed the meal a lot.
Monday, July 14, 2003
I'M SO TIRED TODAY! I literally was running around all day today. Last night when I was having dinner with my parents, Martin and two friends, they were talking about going to work in the morning and I said, gee, I have nothing to do tomorrow. I was kind of looking forward to a peaceful day. But it didn't turn out that way at all. It was wicked busy.
In the last few days I've been working up a storm for my piano studio business. I put together a website for my piano studio, which was quite a project but feels very rewarding that it's done. I registered a domain name for it and as soon as the whole registration process goes through, I'll share it here. I'm very excited about it. Last week, I also typed up a newsletter for my studio which ended up looking really cool. Martin finished printing it for me today and it looks great. I mailed some off today to my current and prospective students. I hope all my efforts lead to good results. I really feel quite a lot of energy to improve, improve, improve you know?
Speaking of improving, I have three Schubert pieces to memorize. Notes memorized. German not memorized. That needs to change very soon. Like tomorrow, I'm thinking. It was supposed to get done today but funny, I had an unexpectedly busy day.
Tomorrow my 87 year old great-aunt is hosting a dinner at my house. Which I guess means that I'm hosting it too. No particular special occasion, it just happens to be that she has this really spectacular filet mignon recipe that she told me about. When she was all in the hospital and nursing home for the second time, I said to her, listen, when you get out, you need to teach me how to make this stuff and have a dinner. So that's tomorrow. I think she's happy to have a project.
Next week is my birthday. I'm getting old. But you know what? I don't feel old. I've scheduled an early facial for myself (which I always enjoy) and I'll probably go to my voice lesson (because it falls on a Wednesday and I'm not sure that having a birthday on the day of your lesson is reason enough to cancel) and you know, what better thing to do anyway right? I love facials and I love to sing, so those both sound like good activities. Later on that night when I get home I'm going to barbecue some T-bone steaks that I have waiting in the freezer and have my family over. I love birthdays because they mean marble cake from Publix. I love the stuff.
Anyone been to Asheville? I'm heading to NC and to the Smokey Mountains at the end of the month. I'm going to visit the Biltmore Estate and the Smokeys National Park of course and I'm excited about it. I've only been on the I-95 side of NC before on my way to Jersey. So I'm definitely looking forward to that. I hear that at Biltmore, they have a lot of roses there in summer, and a winery and an impressive house so I think that I'll enjoy that immensely.
By the way, my rose bush rocks. Every day this week I've been able to cut some flowers off of it and put them in the bud vase on my dining room table. Yay!
